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Abiquo has a flexible pricing system that is designed to enable cloud providers to supply estimates for and price cloud services. |
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To display pricing models, click the pricing button in the main menu. The pricing model of your enterprise has the text "(assigned pricing model)" after the Name.
The platform will list the pricing models that you can display based on your user scope.
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Go to Pricing → Extra charges with cost codes
Click the + add button
For General information:
Enter a Name to identify the cost code for extra charges.
You can use the Name and Description to identify the cost item to make it easier for your users to understand their cloud billSelect the Type that is the resource type the extra charge will apply to.
To bill an enterprise directly for a service or subscription or product, select Enterprise product.
You can assign this cost code directly to an enterprise, see Manage enterprise productsThe Custom service option is implemented in customer integrations only in this version.
Select the Unit for the extra charge:
Usage CPUs will record the usage and multiply by the number of CPUs in a VM with the extra charge
Usage user licenses for a template will record the usage and multiply by the number of licenses you enter when you add the extra charge to a VM
The Subscription option is available for Enterprise products and custom services in customer integrations
For Initial prices
The initial prices for a resource are set now: set them in all of the currencies in your platform. You can later assign different prices in each pricing model
For full details of working with cost codes for extra charges, see Manage extra charges with cost codes.
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At any time users can click the Estimate button in the virtual appliance view to display a current pricing estimate for a VM.
The platform displays the pricing estimate in a separate popup
Users with access to the Abiquo API can also request a pricing estimate via the API.
To automatically display a pricing estimate popup when the user deploys a virtual appliance or VM, when creating a pricing model, select the checkbox to "Show charges before deployment".
Configure the pricing estimate message
The default text of the pricing estimate message is as follows.
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Table of pricing estimate variables
Variable | Description and example |
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%CHARGEPERIOD% | Charging period, for example "month". |
%MINCHARGE_FORMATTED% | Minimum charge, for example 2.25 USD. |
%MINPERIOD% | Minimum charging period, for example "week" |
%BACKUP_PRICE | |
%CHARGE_FORMATTED% | Charge for the virtual machine, for example "22.50 USD" |
%VM_PRICES% | List of charges per virtual machine. for example: |
%VDC_PRICES% | List of charges per virtual datacenter resource |
%VDC_TOTAL_CHARGE | Total charge for virtual datacenter resources, not including VMs |
Notes about the pricing estimate message:
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